UNITED NATIONS

One of RLS–NYC’s major tasks is to work on issues of concern to the United Nations, particularly as they relate to the Global South. We seek to strengthen progressive actors to engage with and more effectively challenge unequal power relations in order to build a more just, democratic, and peaceful world. We want to develop and advance understanding of global power shifts so that social movements, unions, political actors, NGOs, intellectuals, and grassroots communities can more effectively advocate for new and better approaches to global governance institutions and more effectively work for conflict prevention and resolution. In doing so, we seek to contribute to and strengthen movements for a sustainable and just socio-ecological transition. RLS–NYC engages both with the UN’s formal structures and with those who challenge these structures when they fail to live up to the values of the UN Charter.

In order to advance understanding, RLS–NYC publishes studies and organizes events that present research and analysis on topics such as the UN’s use of private military and security companies, the rise of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), and the struggle of the Global South to assert itself politically on the world stage.

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NUCLEAR POWER AND CLIMATE ACTION

New publication by Tim Judson.
When nuclear power started to develop into an ever more important source of electric energy during the second half of the twentieth century, there grew widespread optimism regarding the potential of this seemingly unlimited, clean and, in the long run, economic resource. The unresolved problem of how to dispose of nuclear waste—which degrades...
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Photo: Matthias Lambrecht/Flickr

NUCLEAR POWER AND CLIMATE ACTION

New publication by Tim Judson.
When nuclear power started to develop into an ever more important source of electric energy during the second half of the twentieth century, there grew widespread optimism regarding the potential of this seemingly unlimited, clean and, in the long run, economic resource. The unresolved problem of how to dispose of nuclear waste—which degrades very slowly, with a half-life of up to 15.7 million years—existed from......
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